Florida police have posted footage on social media of a trapper removing a 3.35-meter-long alligator from a family pool in the town of Nokomis on Florida's Gulf Coast. American alligators are native to Florida, Louisiana and other southern states. Even with rampant development and loss of wetlands, officials estimate there are more than 1 million alligators in Florida – a miraculous comeback for a species that was approaching extinction 40 years ago.